the project campus





polio immunisation campaign facilitated by the project

The Society for Agro-Industrial Education in India is a development project located on the outskirts of Amarpurkashi, a village in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. The project was started in 1970 by Mukat Singh who was born in the village and who also founded IVCS. He is now Project Director in India and the Field Director of IVCS.

The project has been running successfully for over 30 years and facilitates many activities including:

A Primary School with over 200 pupils.

A secondary school part-funded by the government but run by the project, this school has over 800 pupils and serves many villages in the area.

Gramodaya Degree College Founded in 1995, the college is affiliated to a local university and has over 1100 students in attendance. The college also has a record of achieving higher than average results.

Free Eye Camps In co-operation with the government eye hospital in Bilari, the APK project runs free eye camps which treat hundreds of poor villagers suffering from cataracts and other eye complaints.

Health Centre for Women and Children With the support of a grant received from the National Lotteries Charity Board, UK, the project has set up a health centre for women and children. The centre attracts the poorest villagers with its sympathetic treatment, low fees and subsidy scheme.

A health education scheme, sponsored by the Indian Government, has recently been completed, providing health and family planning advice to over 100 villages.

A microcredit scheme gives people below the poverty line access to credit to help them generate income.

Other areas of involvement include health promotion, research into improved farming methods, a women's income generation scheme and networking with other Indian NGOs.

The project provides employment for around a hundred local people.

Find out more about the history of the project.

For full details of the latest progress, see the progress report for 2007-8.

If you wish to support the work of the project, you can do so either directly or though IVCS, the project's partner charity in the UK.